People Quotes by Isabel Allende

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

— Isabel Allende

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

— Isabel Allende

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

— Isabel Allende

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

— Isabel Allende

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

— Isabel Allende

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

— Isabel Allende

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

— Isabel Allende

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

— Isabel Allende

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

— Isabel Allende

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture…

— Isabel Allende

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many…

— Isabel Allende

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a…

— Isabel Allende

In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and…

— Isabel Allende

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but…

— Isabel Allende

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you…

— Isabel Allende

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story…

— Isabel Allende

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and…

— Isabel Allende

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and…

— Isabel Allende

I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.…

— Isabel Allende

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to…

— Isabel Allende

Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has…

— Isabel Allende

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,…

— Isabel Allende

She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,…

— Isabel Allende

The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is,…

— Isabel Allende

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought…

— Isabel Allende

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

— Isabel Allende

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

— Isabel Allende

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy,…

— Isabel Allende

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many…

— Isabel Allende

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult…

— Isabel Allende

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in…

— Isabel Allende

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We…

— Isabel Allende

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to…

— Isabel Allende

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a…

— Isabel Allende

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,…

— Isabel Allende

At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it…

— Isabel Allende

People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This…

— Isabel Allende

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose…

— Isabel Allende

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the…

— Isabel Allende

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them…

— Isabel Allende